Vox Lucens

I live in corporate casual. That’s not a complaint; I like corporate casual very much. I certainly like the opportunity to dress up from time to time, but given the choice I wouldn’t want to wear a tie every day, and I enjoy working jobs that require me to at least wear a pair of slacks and a shirt that isn’t covered in wrinkles.

And because I live in corporate casual, I have a lot of it. (Cheap custom-made shirts from Thailand will do that, too…) About a year ago, as I was coming the end of my massive shirt-ironing project one Sunday afternoon, I realized what I had always known in my heart: I hate ironing. But I also hate wrinkled shirts.

Hatred led to action, as it often does, and I took revenge on my iron by putting it away and taking my shirts to the dry cleaner. All it took was one time, and I was addicted. Nothing beats getting 15-20 shirts back, clean and crisply pressed, carefully hung on a little wire hanger.

But you do that any number of times, and the wire hangers take over. They hang in the closet, they sit on the floor, they clog up the trash can–and if you don’t carefully fold them, they rip the trash bag to shreds. And yet, it seems a pity to waste them. Some third-world sweatshop worker put great pains into making that thing, and it seems a great waste of both unskilled labor and cheap metal to chuck dozens of hangers on a regular basis.

And good grief, they’re like a natural resource. My closets are bubbling forth with wire hangers like the plains of Texas bubble with tea. But unlike the Texans, I have not tapped the power of this natural resource.

So I ask you, good friends, what can be done to turn this resource into a little lining for my wallet? So far all the ideas either take too much time or provide too little opportunity to cash out:

• Robot.
• Spider web wallhanging.
• Yarn covered hangers. (Do the feathers make the bird?)
• Vintage wire basket.
• Ugly earrings to hang doll clothes on?

Help!

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